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Ghana is ranked 1st in Africa with the largest outstanding debt to the International Monetary Fund.   According to the Fund’s Quarterly Finances as of the end of July 2022, the country’s loans outstanding is estimated at 1.31 billion Special Drawing Rights equivalent to about $1.69 billion.   The country’s …

Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, says Ghana will not recognize any annexation of Ukrainian territories by the Russian Federation. Addressing a special meeting of the United Nations (UN) Security Council on the Maintenance of the peace and security of Ukraine in New York City today …

The concept that mere theory does not do enough in education appears to have been agreed on by experts worldwide. But the implementation in many classrooms in Africa is yet to see a conscious evolution to practicalise lessons for children of school-going age. This was the angle Education Minister Dr …

The two suspects in the Mankessim murder case have been remanded in police custody. The two people, the Tufohen of Ekumfi Akwakrom, Nana Oye and a self-styled pastor have been arrested by the police in connection with the death and secret burial of a lady at Mankessim in the Central …

Four bodies have been retrieved, and an intensive search is continuing for three missing persons in what is suspected to be ritual murders that have hit Wa, the Upper West Regional capital. Since April, this year, seven men believed to be private security persons, have been abducted by unknown assailants …

Inflation rate is not increasing in only Ghana but it is also the same story in some developed countries including the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US), President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has said.   Mr Akufo-Addo said this at the 77th session of the United Nation’s General …

Chiefs in over 20 communities along the Sankor-Cape Three Points road in the Ahanta West Municipality of the Western Region are up in arms against the leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government led by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The chiefs are unhappy with the poor nature of their …

Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reiterated the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on the global economy especially on African countries. The president holds that the war which started in February 2022 aggravated an already precarious situation for African economies that were starting to recover from the effects of …

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The Head of the Foreign Exchange Bureau Examinations Office, at the Bank of Ghana (BoG) Adjoa Konadu Torto, warned that members of the general public who patronise the activities of ‘Black Market” operators are equally guilty before the law.   Her comments come at a time the BoG, together with …